Re: Fwd: Re: what is the fastest way to fetch results which are sorted by timestamp ?

Olly Betts <olly <at> survex.com>
2011-09-01 12:55:28 GMT

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 09:55:47AM +0100, Tim Brody wrote:
> I took that example from here:
> http://xapian.org/docs/apidoc/html/classXapian_1_1Enquire.html#bbf7ff734ff6adcb301e493f6eed803b
>
> Which says reverse-sorting by docid is "very efficient" ?
I think it's more accurate to say that is "efficient" (since it will be
more efficient in terms of computation and required data than the value
sort alternative), and that the opposite sort order is "very efficient",
so I've updated it to say that in SVN.
Cheers,
Olly